Adolescent Brain

<p><em>"Excellent advice on dealing with young people. I wish I'd had this book when my own children were adolescents!"</em><br />—Patricia Wolfe International Educational Consultant Mind Matters Inc.<br /><br /><em>"Written in a reader-friendly manner the book thoughtfully examines the transition period from childhood to adulthood and combines scholarship from psychology education and neuroscience. Loved the graphics!"</em><br />—Sheryl Feinstein Associate Professor Augustana College</p><p><em>"Readers will leave this book with a sense of calmness about living or working with adolescents."</em><br />—Bob Patterson Training Manager Discovery Education</p><p><strong><em>How the teenage brain thinks feels learns and changes on its journey to adulthood.</em></strong></p><p>In this enlightening volume expert educator Robert Sylvester explains how adults can better understand teenagers through an engaging discussion of the adolescent brain. Readers will learn how to:</p><ul> <li>Mentor adolescents rather than attempt to manage and control them</li> <li>Nurture creativity imagination and individuality</li> <li>Understand such critical issues as sexuality and bondingproductivity and vocation morality and ethics risk and security technology and drugs collaboration and autonomy and more</li></ul><p><br />Familiar examples and nontechnical language make this an accessible resource appropriate for rewarding classroom or family discussion.</p>